VirtualBox 3.0.0-BETA_1 is really fast, no comparison to qemu

Because I had such great experience in the past with VirtualBox I downloaded and installed VirtualBox 3.0 Beta 1 recently. And I must say that it just works flawlessly! 1. The Installation after downloading the Files was really fast, then 2. My Windows XP is as fast as anything I could imagine. I can actually have my Linux and my Windows XP running at the same time with no performance problems whatsoever with 2 GB of RAM. Ok I got one of those Intel SSDs (160GB) that might make a difference but I really give VirtualBox my thumbs-up and Qemu my Thumbs-Down, including my toes! I tried to use Qemu for a long time but (between the VirtualBox versions 1.5 and 3.0) and for the mean time I am back to VirtualBox because it is such a real pleasure to use it! Thank you VirtualBox! Thank you to DownloadSquad for pointing this out to me.

Vista Update on Qemu takes reeeeealllllyyyyy looooong.

I managed to get the network card of Vista working in Qemu. Now I am up-dateting my Vista-Ultimate via Qemu and it takes ages, hours, days, just very very long.

Qemu rocks my Balls off! Oh my God!

I just installed the latest version of Qemu on my Gentoo machine and I am impressed how easy the installation was. I am really impressed. I did not have to configure any interface or stuff, I just installed Qemu Version 0.9.1 and also KQemu (1.3.0 pre11) put in the CD of my Windows XP copy and ran these commands:

$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 /path/to/xp.cow 1300M

$ qemu -hda /path/to/xp.cow -boot d -cdrom /dev/cdrom -m 384 -localtime

and then to boot into my XP from my Gentoo:

$ qemu -hda /path/to/xp.cow -boot c -m 1000 -localtime -k de -usb -soundhw all

Man, Fabrice Bellard I am just a bit baffeled how easy and smooth this went. Thank you!

OMG: Sound works as well.

This is far more easy to install then VirtualBox for me. Vista does not work yet though at least not during my last try.

Vista-Qemu-Update:

Vista does not want to install. I get following error:

I googled and this seems to be an ACPI related error. Maybe my Bios does not fully support ACPI to the satisfaction of Windows Vista.

Update: There seems to be a solution for this problem, I just searched the qemu-mailinglist-archives.

Update 10.4.2008: Guess what, now it works quite smooth! Just installing Windows Vista on my Qemu-Gentoo.